The Pharos Project is a project of the Healthy Building Network. HBN is:

In Vermont:
Melissa Coffin, Bill Walsh

In California:
Tom Lent

In Washington, DC:
Larry Kilroy, Sarah Gilberg, Sarah Pickell, Susan Sabella

In Maine:
Jim Vallette

CARPETS: HELP US ROLL THEM OUT

The Pharos Project is in the process of opening a new product category, carpets. This category is particularly complex.

Carpets are really multi-component assemblies of backing, binder, fiber, and treatments. Typically, these components are manufactured by upstream suppliers, then assembled in the carpet factories.  Carpet manufacturers sell hundreds of styles, which in turn have many color options.   And, to make matters even more confusing, manufacturers frequently change the name of styles, making product names obsolete.

In order to provide evaluations that inform Pharos users’ selection practices, we need to know how you go about selecting carpets.  We also would like you to identify backings, fibers, and other components in which you are most interested. 

Your feedback will help us determine how best to collect and display the data that are most important to you.

Please click here to take the survey.

Many large carpet manufacturers have expressed a willingness to submit product data for Pharos evaluation.    If you represent a carpet manufacturer and have not been contacted by us yet, please send us an email and we’ll get the process started.

Whether you are a purchaser or a manufacturer, we look forward to hearing from you.  Thanks!
 

Jim Vallette is a researcher with the Pharos Project and the Healthy Building Network.

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